Affiliation: Guangdong Laboratory Animals Monitoring Institute,Cardiovascular model research group, China

Dr. Feng Hua Yang is an associate professor, the head of the Cardiovascular Model Research Group, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Guangdong Laboratory Animals Monitoring Institute, Guangzhou, China. She received a Masters and PhD in biomedical sciences focused on cardiac biology from University of Guelph, Canada, and completed her post-doctoral training at University of Alberta and University of Toronto. Dr. Yang’s primary research interest is to investigate the molecular mechanism underlying the progression of cardiac remodeling and heart failure. She is committed to developing innovative animal models and introducing precise evaluation methods of the models for cardiovascular research. She holds 10 patents and has won Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (2nd Class), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Graduate Scholarship, and Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She is a member of the editorial board of Acta Laboratorium Animalis Scientia Sinica, a reviewer of several peer-reviewed scientific journals, and a moderator of several cardiovascular conferences.